June McDoom

Whilst June McDoom was listening to folk music in her bedroom, the bass from her father’s DJ sets would rumble through the floor. She grew up in a Jamaican family in South Florida, where her father had homemade speakers scattered around the house. June herself preferred to listen to Simon & Garfunkel in her room. That music now comes together in her songs, where she blends folk with reggae rhythms and her soft vocals float between acoustic guitars and synths. Her grandfather played mento, a Jamaican form of acoustic folk music, and gave her her first guitar. On her upcoming debut album ‘Follow The Light’, you can hear how McDoom builds on that musical family history. For instance, ‘Human Angel’ began as a folk track with a nylon-stringed guitar, to which she later added a rhythm inspired by reggae artist Eek-A-Mouse.